Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence P. R. S. Moorey
Publisher: Eisenbrauns

According to Genesis 14, the “cities of the plain,” which include Sodom, Gomorrah, Zoar, Zeboiim and Admah, join forces to battle a coalition of Mesopotamian kings in the “Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea),” a clear reference to the Dead Sea Finding no clear archaeological evidence for Sodom and Gomorrah in the vicinity of Zoar, however, W.F. Indus writing and ancient Ivory. Evidence for a forgotten ancient language which dates back more than 2500 years, to the time of the Assyrian Empire, has been found by archaeologists working in Turkey. This narrative (which many actually consider to be innovative) in fact reiterates a common canon of thought – not only within the archaeological discourse – but within the history of Western philosophy. One of the Anyone who has perused the whole of the material is struck by the remarkable fact that Etemenanki [the fabulous ziggurat of Babylon] is nowhere mentioned in the description of the course of the [akitu] festival though numerous other sacred localities in Babylon are referred to. Metal traces on Phoenician artifacts show long-gone paint and gold. In Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), P. Evidence shows that ancient Shahdad had a large metalworking industry by this time. During a recent survey, a new generation of archaeologists found a vast hill—nearly 300 feet by 300 feet—covered with slag from smelting copper. It is one concerned with the evolution from hominids to humans or, synonymously, with the transition from hunting to industry and the subordination of nature by human reason. It is the southern Mesopotamian backdrop that provides the basis for studying the account in light of what is known of the culture and history of Mesopotamia.